The state chronicle., 1887-11-10
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
ABOUT UTTERANCES OF SOUTH
ERN JMBECILES.
s.Lee Never Made a Side Show of Him
self, ,''Thereby Bringing Injury to Every
Square Foot of His Section, &C.

s'Lee Never Made a Side Show of Him
self,',Thereby Bringing Injury to Every
Square Foot of His Section. &C.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov 6, S1-There
is temporary lull in politics here at this
time. Attention is fixed on the uncertain
States in which electfo occur next Tues
day. New York is safe for the Democrats,
so a well Informed AMI distinguished New
York politician told me yesterday, but the
same gentleman says jackson S fool speech
at Macon has caused the party to lose
thousands of votes in Ohio and Massachu-
sets. told him the South ought not to
be judged by the utterances of such mad
men-or iinbeciles, whichever he preferred
and | made him read Joe Caldwells
leader in the last Landmark as a specimen
OF what the best OF our representative men
thought and said. He was delighted with
the editorial, and suggested that | should
have it telegraphed to the leading Demo
cratic papers in Ohio, at once. | regretted
that it was beyond my power to comply
with his request, for | believe its publlca-
tion would have been of service to the
party in that State. | told the New York
er that Joe Caldwell was the son of the
Hon. Jos. P. Caldwell, and that his peo
pie. on both sides of his house, had done
ll4til ootf ~ tAIC SCt4iSOCIdSJ UuC
State while the war lasted. This was to
offset statement made by Georgian to
the effect that jackson never saw the
smoke of single battle field You will
observe that the majority of The Sc loud
talking secession ''patrlots' of the present,
did not even attempt to kill single Yam
kee, little over a quarter OF century
agOl While the nl5n ah 10 did the nghtlng
and made for the South a record for cour-
age unparalleled in the history of the
world, have accepted, IN honorable good
faith, the terms to which Robert Lee
agreed at AppomatoX, and have gone heart
lily to work to do their full share in max
ing their section a valuable and important
factor in our common and thoroughly re-
united country.
Senator Ransom spent Thursday here
attending to important matters for several
of his constituents. One of his first ques
tionS was: What do the politicians say
of that absurd speech of Jackson's?' Gen
Ransom arose from the rank Of Lieut..
Colonel 10 that of MAJOR General in the
Confederate army. He proved his devo-
ton to his state by his acts. | hear that
last week he made q very effective and
eloquent speech al the re union of the Con
federate veterans al LeIlor. | will wager
he uttered no word unworthy OF Senator
of the UNITED STATES. expressed no septl-
ment which savers OF disi0yalty 10 The
Stars and Stripes, nor OF dlsrespect to the
forever Conquered Banner The men
''who wore the gray" have too much re-
gard for the Confederate flag to haunt it
on every occasion in the eyes Of q handful
of Yankee bloody shirt shriekers, just as a
Matador throws his red pennon at the
head of a mad bull. They have left that
sort of business to dead beats of the later
day -JacksOnian stripe. and it is time now
| to force them to stop 1t. Around the flag
! itself, folded and tied with Grape as it is,
| and should be, cluster too many memories
of men, who died that it might wave in
| honor and triumph, for it TO be thus desc
Grated. The time has come for such men
| to be silenced, and if Mr.. Jefferson Davis
| has not patriotism enough left him IN his
| dotage. TO enable him TO refuse TO utter
words hurtful to every square foot of his
| section. then he ought not to be encOur-
| aged to talk or to make pitiable specta-
| Gle of himself. In his defeat and disaster
| Lee gained rather than lost dignity, aud
never heard Of his making a side-show Of
| himself.
4 correspondent of two Maine newspa
| pers succeeded in creating quite sensa
| ton here last week. Soon after the Chief
Justice delivered the opinion adverse tC
the Anarchists. Mr.. Hopkins, the CORES
pondent referred TO, went to the post office
| and directed to Chief Justice Waite a box
intended to resemble one Of the internal
machines used by the Anarchists. Shortly
| afterwards he went to the residence of the
| Chief Justice to inquire if such box had
been received. He wrote up sensational
account of the affair and tried TO sell it tC
| s ,., Tho IDiS
| trict Attorney sent for the box, had its
contents analyzed and Mr.. Hopkins was
arrested by the gentlemen to whom he
tried 10 sell his bogus item. He was balleC
in the sum Of 81 900. but will be tried
later on the charge Of obtaining money or
| faise pretenSes. An unfortunate clrcum
| stance connected with the case is that Mr.
| Henry Branerd. a young cousin of the
Chief Justice, was very sick of typhoid
fever in the house, and the constant ring
ing of the bell by reporters, before thu
hoax was discovered, made him very ner
vous and yesterday he died. Mrs. Wait.
is also in delicate health and the long sick
ness and death of Mr.. Brainerd, togethe
strange visitors at the crisis of his disease
have affect her quite seriously.
Miss Hortense Haughton of Pittsboro
will be here on the 18th to spend part o
the winter with her brother aW, Mr.
r H. Cowan, Resolution and Petition
Clerk Of the House Of Representatives.
Miss Mary Manning, of Chapel Hill,
daughter Of Hon John Manning,is is expect
ed here soon to spend some time with he
aunt Mrs. DR.. Manning, on 10th Street
She will doubt SIS enjoy visit to Wash
ington. Few people are more highly es
teemed here than Hon. John Manning an
bis uncle, the late Hon. Thomas c. Man
ming, Minister to Mexico. Many Mort
Caroliuians here will be pleased to max
her acquaintance.
Mrs. DR.. Wright and her grand daugh
ter, Miss Talbot, of Norfolk, Va, arrive
here yesterday. They are visiting friend
in this city. Mrs. Wright is the widow c
DR.. Wright who was hung during the wa
bv the Yankees for resenting some indig
nifty while negroes were being drilled nea
Norfolk. Mrs Fred Fetter who, believe
still lives in North Carolina is daughte
of NJ 5 Wright.
The quarantine vessel will be remove
from her station off Cape Charles and th
Chesapeake Bay will be open to infecte
, vessels of all sorts. This exposes Norfoll
Portsmouth, Richmond, Washington, Alel
andra, Annapolis and Baltimore to a
kinds of epidemlcs and to such foreig
diseases as yellow fever, cholera, lepros..